Historical Novel Glenfiddich Inn Now Available on Amazon, Kindle and in Paperback

Set in WWI-era Boston, New York and Scotland (1915-1919), new novel explores the early days of radio in the time of War and the sinking of the Lusitania.

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Mar 03, 2015, 08:30 ET

NEWTON CENTRE, Mass., March 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Glenfiddich Inn, by Alan Geik, embraces stock scams, love affairs, the emergence of a simpleton teenager, Babe Ruth, as America's first great sports hero, and the struggle to keep the country out of the disastrous "Great War" (1914-1918).

One of the central themes is the early days of radio experimentation. Wireless Morse code had been achieved only a few years before. Its existence allowed the stricken Titanic in 1912 to send for help—otherwise those many survivors, and their stories, would have been lost to history.

The wireless transmission of the human voice—perhaps even music—became the next communications frontier. They called it "radio."

Two of the female characters are absolutely certain of radio's ability to connect the world in ways never before imagined—despite the skeptics who couldn't see how it could ever be relevant. After all, asked the detractors, who would pay for a radio station if they do not charge a fee to the listeners?

Yet, within just a few years the entire world would indeed become connected by this new technology.

Alan Geik, author, radio personality, financial blogger and London School of Economics graduate has released his tome – a brilliant historical fiction that captures the era through the eyes of two Bostonian families.

Just as the characters in this story are transformed and scarred by the overpowering events, so was a generation of men and women who soon after changed the world: Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, Walt Disney, Stalin, Hitler, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, and Charlie Chaplin, just to name a few.

Danger was in the air—and German spies on the pier—when the ocean liner RMS Lusitania left New York City for Liverpool, England. The date was May 1,1915. Seven days later, a German U-boat torpedo sank the ship —1,198 people perished, including 128 Americans. The course was set for the U.S. to later enter the most terrifying and destructive war known to mankind up to that time.

May 7, 2015 will be the centennial of this history-changing event.

Review copies are now available in PDF and paperback. Author is available for interviews.

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